Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? --Eileen Gunn

[jazzfish]

By now I'm sure everyone has seen the Awesomest Thing On The Internets: Wired Magazine's Very Short Stories. ("Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time" --Alan Moore)

It's easy to write okay-to-pretty-good ones:

This book didn't change your life.

"If that's not your left arm . . ."

Sobbing, he pressed the DELETE key.

So, tell me a story, or two, or three. They don't have to be amazingly brilliant, secrets of Art in six words or anything; they just have to make me smile, or blink, or catch my breath.

They just have to be you. And very short.

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[desfido.livejournal.com]

Some autobiographical ones:

First, the "my life in a nutshell" trilogy:
I failed to reach my potential.
It was because of crippling depression.
I'm worried it'll happen ad infinitum.

I loved her, but said nothing.
It was dumb. I knew. Damn.
Nothing I control seems to matter.
I look back, and mostly regret.
It seems funnier now than then.
Little copper-smelling droplets establish my control.
Should be doing something else now.
Will continue procrastinating with these later.